The ghost of the Calico Saloon piano player returns with a little help from the Knott’s Berry Farm creative team.

Better quality player pianos, such as this 1913 model owned by Carmen Farmer of Picayune, Miss., are now considered collectibles. THE PIECE: A vintage player piano, J.P. Seeburg Co., from 1913 THE ...

The Battlefield Boulevard shop where Ted DeWitt long coaxed music out of intricate machinery is gone. But DeWitt’s player piano repair business continues, operating out of his Chesapeake apartment and ...

Walk in the door here of Player Piano Co. Inc. and you may find yourself greeted by the two office cats while an office worker takes your name. It`s a mail-order company that sells player piano parts, ...

The first thing you notice at Nate Otto’s Anoka house is the hearse in the driveway, a 1967 Olds 98 with tattered curtains and a rusted body. Inside is a small, 100-year-old reed organ built for a ...

Steinway, the gold standard for pianos, is now offering its year-old Spirio player piano in Chicago—for anyone in the market for a self-playing piano with virtuoso-level quality, minus the virtuoso.

“When I was 16, I decided I wanted to live in the 19th century.” – Laurence “Larry” Broadmoore. Trouble was it was 1968 – well into the 20th century – but Larry Broadmoore didn’t care. At heart he was ...

Imagine a scene in the parlor: You sit down at your turn-of-the-century player piano and start pumping the pedals. The piano roll becomes taut and then slips smoothly from one spool to the other. The ...